Karl Marx Visits the Occupy Movement
Over on Pajamas Media, Barry Rubin has posted a pointed and hilarious little fantasy, imagining a visit from Karl Marx to the Occupy Movement. Marx, "[t]he bear-like man with wild hair and long beard," makes his way to lower Manhattan.
Marx takes aside a young man. He notes the fellow is altogether scraggly, dressed in tattered clothes, unbathed and unshaven. No doubt he is starving, having been cast aside by the factory where he was hitherto overworked and underpaid. With his keen eye, Marx notes he is wearing some kind of canvas shoes, not even being able to afford leather ones! On all of his clothes are small logos. How disgusting, Marx thinks, he must bear the free advertising of giant corporations or go naked!
“Excuse me,” says Marx, “have you been thrown out of your 12-hour a day factory job due to over-production? Is that why you are here?”
“No. I have $150,000 in college loans to get my degree in conflict resolution and I don’t want to pay it back.”
Read the entire marvelous column right here.
(A tip of the hat to Meir Kohn.)
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Oct '11
Re: Karl Marx Visits the Occupy Movement
Peter, Rubin would make a great interviewee on Uncommon Knowledge. Three cheers for your recent ones.
Mar '11
Re: Karl Marx Visits the Occupy Movement
I've always thought Mr Obama is not a Marxist - this confirms it.
Apr '11
Re: Karl Marx Visits the Occupy Movement
Might Gramsci might have a different view?
Mar '11
Re: Karl Marx Visits the Occupy Movement
Some proletarians are more lumpen than others.
May '10
Re: Karl Marx Visits the Occupy Movement
He'd be thrilled at the rejection of "bourgeois morality." "Let's have more rape, please!"